Pipes..make them or buy them ?

[Dphariss]

I can make so much better pipes than i can buy for most "American guns" that I only buy castings that are of a design thats a pain to do from sheet. Like some English entry pipes.


Dan

[Mark Elliott]

Sights are easy, try losing a lock fly.  That'll test your patience as well as your eyesight.

I have extra of those sorts of parts until the one I dropped finds me.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

Mark, I did the same.  I bought a half dozen of each of the flies for locks I commonly work on.  I also have a metal candy box full of lock screws of various sizes, again, for those locks that I work on, and whose parts, once they leave the bench, no longer exist.

[Bob Roller]

Sights are easy, try losing a lock fly.  That'll test your patience as well as your eyesight.

I have a light UNDER my bench just for such irritants as dropping a fly.It helps to be able to see in
such a situation.

Bob Roller

[smylee grouch]

I have several small magnets stuck to the sides of my metal working vice to catch some of the fillings and have been lucky enough to catch a fly on two instances.

[Mark Elliott]

Sights are easy, try losing a lock fly.  That'll test your patience as well as your eyesight.

I have a light UNDER my bench just for such irritants as dropping a fly.It helps to be able to see in
such a situation.

Bob Roller

I like that idea.    Maybe I should get one of those little light strips to attach to the bottom the table I use for lock assembly.  I am always looking for dropped stuff around that table. 

[flinchrocket]

I use a non HC screwdriver with a magnetized tip to disassemble and assemble locks. Keeps small
screws and flies from getting out of control.

[Ed Wenger]

What Dave said about original rifles.....  I've found that there are exceptions to everything, but far and away, original pieces had pipes made from sheet.  European pieces are a different matter...

A good alternative, if you don't want to make them, is to purchase the formed, plain pipes, and file/shape them to suit.


       Ed

[kaintuck]

try having a tom cat in the shop...along with his bales of sleeping straw, and his 'playfullness' while your working!!!!!!!!!
then again, when his is sitting, and just watching me....when you drop something....just look at him....he will be looking at where it stopped rolling/falling.....kats don't miss NOTHING~~~~

and I have dropped stuff, and it be in the cuff of my pants leg............

marc n tomtom